Re: kernel tells me stuff on tty1 - want it on tty 8 or 10. how?
Am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 18:15:45 schrieb Tzafrir Cohen:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:40:12PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > Encountered an oddity on a headless machine with etch r3:
> >
> > When the system is booted, kernel messages are put on tty1.
>
> They actually go to /dev/tty (your "current" console).
>
> > Since this is the
> > terminal I login to after it's booted this is highly annoying since my
> > screen is garbled when I run scripts and the kernel messages me about...
> > mounted disks or plugged ethernet cables etc.
> > I've never seen this with other distros afair, Slackware puts ll its
> > kernel output on tty8 for example. I'd like to have that here, too.
> > Can do?
>
> setlogcons .
>
> You'll have to open(8) that terminal first, I believe.
>
> I use in a certian init.d script:
>
>
> CONSOLE=10
> openvt -c "$CONSOLE" -- /bin/true || true
> setlogcons "$CONSOLE" || true
>
What's it with the "true"?
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